Evidence of Plant Life on the Planet Mars Is Announced by an American Astronomer
E C Slipher finds plant life evidence; Dr W H Steavenson comments
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E C Slipher finds plant life evidence; Dr W H Steavenson comments
Mussolini announces plan to break up Sicilian estates to aid peasants; V Gayda comments
discusses stoppage
Audience with Pope; gift exch
Westchester officials annoyed by 4-cent bills for sewer service
1939Jamey Aebersold, American saxophonist and educator[โ ]
Wilton Jameson "Jamey" Aebersold is an American publisher, educator, and jazz saxophonist. His Play-A-Long series of instructional books and CDs, using the chord-scale system, the first of which was released in 1967, are an internationally renowned resource for jazz education. His summer workshops have educated students of all ages since the 1960s.
1939Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (died 2015)[โ ]
Kim Vincent Fowley was an American record producer, songwriter, and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll", as well as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream".
1939John Negroponte, English-American diplomat, 23rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations[โ ]
John Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. In 2018, he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007โ2009), and the first ever Director of National Intelligence (2005โ2007).